@anticonscience I have a understanding of JavaScript. Am I fluent? Not really
OK, well that's a start, I was going to say it would be best to get an understanding of JS first before diving into frameworks built on that language.
@anticonscience I have a understanding of JavaScript. Am I fluent? Not really
RoR, Laravel or whatever you choose for your server backend would typically provide a Rest API for your javascript frontend (Angular, Ember or whatever) which would pull in data with Ajax calls.